Shanghai: A Chinese activist who spent more
than three months camped inside Tokyo`s international airport
as part of a protest flew home to China on Friday and was allowed
into the country.
Feng Zhenghu arrived on a flight from Narita
International Airport, where he stayed from early November
until last week to protest China`s refusal to let him return
home. Police met him at Shanghai`s airport and escorted him
out, first to lunch and then to his home.
"I`m so glad to be back in my own home," Feng told
reporters gathered outside his apartment in northern Shanghai.
"Returning home is a basic right of any citizen," he
said.
Feng`s return to China comes after eight previous
attempts since June when Chinese authorities refused to allow
him in. Feng, a dissident writer and human rights activist,
had angered the local government by supporting student
protests and accusing local authorities of wrongdoing.
Feng, 55, returned just in time to celebrate the Lunar
New Year, China`s biggest holiday, with his family.
He said he planned to return to a "normal life" and had
not agreed to any special conditions for being allowed to come
back.
"I will do whatever I must do," he said. "The kind of
person that I am, I would not agree to any conditions for
returning home."
PTI
